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title: Max wants to put outdoor lights round the tree using his indoor fair… — Electricity dangers: sockets, water, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Max wants to put outdoor lights round the tree using his indoor fairy lights. Should he? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Max wants to put outdoor lights round the tree using his indoor fairy lights. Should he?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Max · **What happens:** want, put, use, light · **To what, where:** outdoor lights, indoor fairy lights

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Electricity dangers: sockets, water, chargers and batteries» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/technology/16-electricity-dangers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Max wants to put outdoor lights round the tree using his indoor fairy lights.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:1
# text = Max wants to put outdoor lights round the tree using his indoor fairy lights.
1	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Max |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Max *not said here* | outdoor lights |  |  |  | round the tree | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Max *not said here* | Max's indoor fairy lights |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 4 | **light** |  | Max |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* Should he?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:2
# text = Should he?
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No, because outdoor lights are too bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:o1:1
# text = No, because outdoor lights are too bright
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | outdoor lights |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, if it doesn't rain much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:o2:1
# text = Yes, if it doesn't rain much
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | it | rain |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, indoor lights are never used outdoors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:o3:1
# text = No, indoor lights are never used outdoors
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | present · passive |  | indoor lights |  |  |  | outdoors *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, they are all the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:16-electricity-dangers:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, they are all the same
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | all, same *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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